Clients should seriously consider selecting a qualified competition adviser before initiating even the planning stages of a competition. This usually helps clients avoid many of the pitfalls and surprises which can occur during that process. One may assume, with full participation of a competition adviser, that an efficiently administered competition will lead to a satisfactory conclusion.

This is by no means a complete list of architects who have served as competition advisors. However, it does include many of those who have administered competitions which have resulted in real projects being built. O = Open Competition I = Invited Competition D/B = Design Build Competition

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Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, has almost 30 years of experience in all aspects of design competitions. He has served as advisor, jury chair, juror, and competitor in numerous events around the U.S. Projects have included local, regional, national, and international competitionsfor a variety of institutional, civic, and governmental clients.

In the late 1970s and into the 1980s Brown worked with the Design Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and assisted in the rebirth of competitions in America. He was instrumental in promoting the use of design competitions by civic and institutional sponsors around the country. He served on panels, delivered papers, and lectured on the benefits of the competitive process. He provided guidance and consulted on the production of the NEA publications “Design Competition Manual I”, “Manual II: On-Site Charrettes”, and “Manual III: A Guide for Sponsors” as well manual 4, Learning From Abroad.

His experience in competition development served him well when he researched and wrote the guidelines for the Presidential Design Awards Program, the first national recognition for design in America.

He recently lectured on memorial competitions at both national and regional meetings of the AIA and this November spoke on a panelwith memorial competition architects Daniel Libeskind, HG Merz Berlin, and Metroplois Magazine editor Susan Seznasy.

Author, educator, curator and independent design consultant, Susanna Sirefman, trained as an architect at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. From 1997 through 2003 she was on the faculty at City College of New York School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture and taught at the Parsons School of Design. Sirefman has authored several books including New York: a guide to recent architecture, Chicago: a guide to recent architecture, Whereabouts: New Architecture with Local Identities, and The Contemporary Guesthouse: Building in the Garden and is currently a Contributing Editor to Surface magazine. Her essay titled, "Formed and Forming: Contemporary Museum Architecture" (Summer 1999), commissioned by Daedalus: The Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for their issue devoted to America's Museums has become required reading for numerous museum boards across the country looking to expand or build new buildings. Sirefman has been the recipient of grants from both the National Endowment for the Arts and the Graham Foundation for the Fine Arts in 2001-2003 and since 2006 serves as a professional peer for The City of NY Department of Design and Construction Peer Review Program. In 2006, Sirefman was the Competition Advisor for the international design ideas competition, "Urban Voids" sponsored by the Van Alen Institute and The Philadelphia City Parks Association.

Graduate of MIT. Residence and work in Europe as Fulbright Fellow. Practicing architect and planner; lecturer and author of books and articles on competitions and urban design. Was the first Director of the Architectural and Planning Programs at the National Endowment of the Arts. Professional Advisor for:

B. A. University of Pennsylvania; M. Arch. Harvard University. Practicing architect in New York City with experience in large projects. With Pei Cobb Freed & Partners until starting her own practice in 1993. Professional Advisor for:

Registered architects and professors at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, they have presented at numerous conferences and authored several publications, including The Planning and Administration of Design Competitions. Professional Advisors for:

Reed Kroloff holds degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and Yale University, and has practiced architecture in Texas and Arizona. He is the Director of the Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum, former Dean of the Tulane University School of Architecture, and an independent architectural consultant and commentator. The recipient of the American Academy in Rome's 2003 Rome Prize Fellowship, Mr. Kroloff previously served as Editor-in-Chief of Architecture magazine. Under his direction, Architecture received more awards for editorial and design excellence than any magazine of its type. Mr. Kroloff was recently profiled in the New York Times for his work on architect selections, competitions, and design strategy.

The combined construction value of the projects on which the firm has advised now exceeds $1 billion. Professional Advisor for:

Business School, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

City of the Future Design Competition, The History Channel, (New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington DC, San Francisco, Atlanta)

Connective Corridor Urban Streetscape, Syracuse, NY

Fashion Institute of Technology Addition, New York, NY

Freeport Arts Center, Freeport, IL

Flip a Strip, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ

Imagining the High Line, New York, NY

Massena Border Station, Massena, NY

Motown Center, Detroit, MI

National Library of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

Performing Arts Center at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

Performing Arts Center, Weston Public Schools, Weston, CT

September 11 Memorial for the Pentagon, Arlington, VA

St. Boniface, Archdiocese of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Sustainable Housing for New Orleans, Brad Pitt and Global Green, New Orleans, LA

The professional accomplishments of Peter Lizon, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, include saving and interiors restoration of Mies' Villa Tugendhat in Brno and building the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Washington, DC an open national design competition winner. The Centre Square Complex in Philadelphia, PA received the CRSI Design Award for Excellence. As a competitor, he has entered 24 architectural design competitions placing in 8. He has served on 5 design competition juries, as a chair in 3 of these. A Professor Emeritus, he has been awarded in academia the Doctor Honoris Causa. In his architectural design studio, many projects entered in student design competitions placed and won the first prize. A two times recipient of the Fulbright Scholar Award, he authored over 100 professional articles, essays and books. Appointed to the national AIA Committee on Design Competitions Task Group, he co-authored the seminal American Institute of Architects Handbook of Architectural Design Competitions. Currently, he is chairing the AIA-COD subcommittee to revise and update the AIA Handbook. He is serving on the Board of Directors of the Sarasota Architectural Foundation. Born and educated in Czechoslovakia, he came to the US in 1968. He studied on a university fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated with a PhD in Architecture. A Professional Advisor/ Competition Manager service include the following architectural design competitions:

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Roger Schluntz, FAIA University of New Mexico School of Architecture 2414 Central Ave SE Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 T: (505) 277-2879 F: (505) 277-0076
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A professor and dean of the School of Architecture, University of New Mexico, Roger Schluntz previously directed the School of Architecture at Arizona State University. He was on the National Register of Peer Reviewers of the General Services Administration and serves as a consultant to the American Architectural Foundation in Washington. Professional Advisor in the following competitions:

Central Library, City of Nashville and Davidson County, Nashville, TN (I)

Prototype Middle School, Fulton County, Georgia (I)

Consultant to The University of Maryland Performing Arts Center, College Park, MD (I)

Environmental Showcase Home, Arizona Public Service Company (O)

Denver Public Library, Denver, CO (I)

American Heritage Center and Museum, University of Wyoming (I)

College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Arizona State University (I)

B. Arts Yale University; M. Arch. Princeton University. Ray Gastil is currently in charge of Gastilworks, a Seattle-based consulting practice focused on planning and urban design, including education and research. He served as the City Plannng Director of Seattle from 2008 to 2010, where he directed long-range planning programs including Central Waterfront redesign and revitalization, Neighborhood Planning Updates initaited along new light rail line, and citywide design and planning initiatives. From 2004 to 2008, he served as Director of the Manhattan office of the New York City Department of Planning. From 1994 to 2004, he was the Executive Director of the Van Alen Institute, a nonprofit committed to improving the design of the public realm through civic leadership, interaction with city and state agencies, and design comeptitions conferences, exhibitions, and publications. Professional Advisor for:

B. Arch. Pratt Institute; M. Arch. Harvard University. A San Francisco Bay area architect and environmental planner, Bill Liskamm has focused much of his work on increasing the use of architectural design competitions in the United States. He has led more than sixty design competitions; many sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, and served on NEA's Competition Advisory Panel. He has authored numerous articles on competitions, and his work in this field has been recognized by the Architectural League of New York's exhibit "The Experimental Tradition: Twenty-Five Years of American Architectural Competitions, 1960-1985" shown at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. The Los Angeles City Council commended Mr. Liskamm for his work as Competition Advisor for the Pershing Square Park Design Competition. Mr. Liskamm was the Competition Advisor for the Fresh Kills Landfill to Landscape Design Competition in New York City, which will be one of the largest reclamation projects in the world. He served as the Competition Advisor for the recent design competition for the new University of California campus in San Francisco 's Mission Bay District that is currently under construction. He also serves on the editorial board of Competitions Magazine. Professional Advisor for:

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David Meckel has degrees in architecture from the University of Southern California and Columbia University. He is the Director of Research and Planning for California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco where he founded the architecture program. He is the chair of SFMOMA’s Architecture and Design Accessions Committee and vice-chair of the non-profit group Public Architecture. He contributes a regular column to arcCA magazine and is on the editorial advisory board of The Architects Newspaper. He served as a GSA Design Excellence Peer from 2000 - 2008. He has also served as peer inspector for Autodesk’s facilities commissioned through Integrated Project Delivery. David began his career working for Charles and Ray Eames in Venice, California.

He has been a professional advisor for the last 15 years with an emphasis on higher education and cultural facilities. Recent selection and competition advising efforts include:

B. Arch. Cooper Union, M. Arch. Princeton University, Loeb Fellow Harvard University. Director of Architecture and Planning Programs for the National Endowment of the Arts. Michael Pittas initiated a two-decade resurgence of the use of competitions to select architects, designers and artists throughout the USA. Created the first national Training Seminars for Competition Advisors, thus creating a cadre of experts who have subsequently administered many competitions over the last decades. Published several guidebooks on competitions. Instrumental in providing grant support for a number of competitions during his tenure. Professional Advisor for:

B. S. Oregon State University ; B. Arch. University of Washington; M. Arch. & MCP University of Pennsylvania. Donald Stastny, principal of StastnyBrun Architects, has design experience in a range of projects, from multi-family housing to office buildings, new town planning to renovation of historic structures, museum design to various athletic facilities. He is a contributing author of NEA and GSA competition process manuals. Professional Advisor for over 35 competitions including:

Oakland Civic Center, Oakland, CA

Oklahoma City Memorial, Oklahoma City, OK (O)

U.S. Embassy Competition, Berlin, Germany (I)

South Central Mixed-Use Competition, Los Angeles, CA (D/B)

Berkeley Public Safety Building, Berkeley, CA (I)

Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA (I)

Beverly Hills Civic Center, Beverly Hills, CA (I)

Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland, OR (I)

Domaine Clos Pegase Winery, Napa Valley, CA (I)

Clark County Government Center, Las Vegas, NV (I)

East Campus Plus, Olympia, WA (D/B)

Oakland Administration Building, Oakland, CA (D/B)

San Francisco Prize/ GSA Plaza (O)

Transbay Terminal, San Francisco (I)

Alaska State Capitol (I)

San Diego Civic and Government Center, San Diego, CA (D/B)

State of Oregon Office Building, Portland, OR

Perris Civic Center, Perris, CA

Waverly Park, Kirkland, WA

US Courthouse, Eugene, OR

US Courthouse, Springfield, MA

Ontario Educational Village, Ontario, CA

Capital City Development Corporation Pioneer Corridor, Boise, ID

Flight 93 National Memorial, Shanksville, PA (O)

Spreckels Town Center, Spreckels, CA (I)

University of Hawaii School of Law

National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC

Community Connector Design Competition, Vancouver, WA

Framing a Modern Masterpiece, City+Arch+River Design Competition, St. Louis, MO

B.S. in Architecture Georgia Institute of Technology. As the design coordinator of an international architectural, engineering and project management firm, Ed Wundrum has considerable experience managing large public projects. As an advisor to the Board of Directors of the Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA), and Chairman of their Policy & Process Committee (1995-96), he authored the DBIA Manual of Practice publications Design-Build RFQ/RFP Guide for Public Sector Projects, Design-Build RFQ/RFP Guide for Small to Medium Projects, and the contract form, Contract for Design-Build Consultant Services. He was the co-chairman of DBIA's Manual of Practice Task Force (1996-98) and was the vice-chair of the Institute's Policy Committee (1998-2003). Professional Advisor for:

M. Arch. University of Oregon; B. A. Design of the Environment, University of Pennsylvania. Fredrick H. Zal is the principal architect of Atelier Z, an architecture and industrial design studio. Since the inception of the Mayor City Design Initiative, he has been a team leader and proponent for advocating higher design and design education. Concurrently, he is also the Director of Competitions for the Museum of the City, an emerging urban design institute proposing to work collaboratively with the City of Portland, Oregon and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Professional Advisor for:

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Phd architecture is a consulting firm offering services in project management, programming, competition management and in other communications activities related to architecture. After acquiring 10 years of experience in private practice, Philippe Drolet founded phd architecture and became known as a competition advisor. In 2004, the firm organized its tenth architectural competition. Professional Advisor for:

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Graduates of TU Berlin. Practicing architects and planners; lecturer and author of books and articles on competitions, architecture and urban design, since 1997 specialised in the coordination of competition procedures. Professional Advisor for (among others):

Malcolm Reading is a specialist advisor in briefing, programming, design management and project support- primarily active in the museums, arts, education and heritage sectors. His consulting company is expert at drawing together client and design teams to create solutions that maximise the business and organisational impact of design. He is an architect and project manager and prior to starting this company he was director of design and architecture at the British Council (1990 - 1996) where he established the organisation's successful policy to promote new design talent in developing its facilities across the world. He is an expert advisor to the Royal Institute of British Architects and assessor for the UK Heritage Lottery Fund. Professional advisor, technical consultant, or client representative for:

British Pavilion for the 2010 World Expo, Shanghai (O)

The Laban International Contemporary Dance Centre, London (O)

Masterplan for the Library of Foreign Literature, Moscow (I)

Three new buildings for the City and Islington College, London (D/B; I)

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Barry cheng, Principal of Barry Cheng Architect & Associates, has served as a professional adviser for numerous competitions in Taiwan. He received a Master of Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Architecture from Tunghai University, Taiwan. Most of the Taiwan competitions he has administered have been open internationally, with a second stage.

• Taiwan Tower Conceptual Design International Competition

• Port of Kaohsiung Passenger Transportation District---Port and Cruise Service Center International Competition

• Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural & Popular Music Center International Competition

• Taipei Pop Music Center International Competition

• Taipei Performing Arts Center International Competition

• The Wei-Wu-Ying Center for the Performing Arts International Competition

• Taiwan Centers for Disease Control Complex International Competition